Acetylene-gas generator.



PATENTED MAY 8, 1906 M. D. COMPTON. AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED 0013,1901.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELVIN D. COMPTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y ASSIGNOR TO FRANK FULLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ACETYLENE-GAS GENERATOR.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed October 3 1901. Qerial No. 77,344..

rcitizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New 5 York, have invented a certain new and useful Acetylene-Generator, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of the present invention are to provide for the removal of the residuum after the liberation of the gas by immersion of the carbid in water, to provide an automatic, reliable, and eflicient generator, and to provide a generator which may be rechar ed without interfering with the operation 0 generating as. g To these and other ends hereinafter 'set forth the invention, stated in general terms, comprises a gas-holder and its fluid-receptacle provided with means whereby calcium is liberated, and the residuum is then fed or carried from the fluid and deposited in any suitable place or receptacle.

The invention further comprises the improvements hereinafter described and -claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a view principally in central section illustrating a generator embodying features of the invention; and Fig. 2 is a view, partly in section, illustrating a carbid-carrier suitable for use in connection with the generator shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 is a receptacle for the fluid, which is usually water, and in which the carbid is submerged or immersed so as to liberate its gas.

2 is a gas-holder operatively arranged in respect to the receptacle 1. Within the receptacle 1 is arranged aconveyer 3, to which the carbid is fed and which serves to convey it to the liquid contained in the receptacle 1. Means are provided for detaining the carbid in the fluid sufficiently long to insure the liberation of the gas. To this end I have illustrated a portion of the conveyer 4 as movable in respect to or pivotally connected with the other portion of the conveyer. When the end 4 of the conveyer is lifted u into the position shown by dotted lines in ig. 1, the carcarbid is fed into the fluid, whereupon its gas bid is detained at the union of the parts 3 and 4, or, in other Words, near their point of pivotal connection long enough to permit of the liberation of its gas. When the end 4 is placed at the same inclination as or in line with the part 3, the residuum travels the length of the conveyer and is by it conducted to a suitable lace for removal from the receptacle 1. or example, is it conveyed into position for being taken up by the elevator 5, which in its turn serves to deposit the residuum in any convenient place, for example, into a vessel containing water or into any other suitable repository. As shown, the elevator 5 is arranged in a suitable well which communicates with the interior of the vessel 1, so as to permit of the passage of the residuum. The lower ortion of the vessel 1 may be made incline as shown, and the lower portion of it may be provided, if desired, with a removable screw-plug 6, so as to afford means for cleaning it out, if desired. The conveyer 3, or rather so much of it as extends outside of the receptacle 1, is, in effect, a conduit and contains fluid. To feed the carbid to the conveyer, use may be made of the pocketed wheel 7, which is rotatably mounted in a suitable casing. This casing is equipped with a feed-chute 8, which serves to deliver carbid to the wheel 7. end of the chute 8 is sealed by rovisions, as 9, fitted with a suitable flanged cover locked by a lever 10. By scaling up all of the means and passages by which the carbid is fed to the conveyer it is im ossible for gas to escape through them, an the gas is when generated delivered into the holder 2, from which it may be led away for use, for example, by means of a pi e 11. As illustrated in the drawings, the ever 10 is arranged to swing about a vertical axis which carries a threeway valve, so that when the lever is thus operated the interior of the part 8 is connected with a vent 12, which serves to permit of the entrance and exit of sufficient air to permit of the withdrawal and replacing of the cover. When the cover is replaced and locked by the The upper lever, the passage to the vent is closed and which is perforated or otherwise provided with openings and which is made in sections.

norma y held together, as by catches or the like 19.

The carbid, is placed: in these carriers,and it is obvious that their form is well adaptedto permit them to traiveLthnoughthe conveyerand that they are also well adapted to permit of theescape of the gas and to retain. the, residuum.

The modev of operation. of the generator may bedescribed asfollows: A supply of carbidis. fed to the conveyer 3, and when themachine is equipped as, illustrated, in the. drawings this is accomplished byfilling. a number of the carrierswith. carbid and introducing them into the part 8. As the supply ofgas from. the. holder-is consumed it will fall, and in falling it rotates the. bucket-wheel, as described, so that thelatter feeds the carriers to the conveyer; In falling, the, holdery2 brings a suitablearm or projection 2Q into en: gagement with an arm or projection 21, connected with the part 4, as shown by dotted lines on Fig. 1. part of the conveyer is properly positioned for detaimng the carbid in the, fluid long enough to. insure the generation of the. gas. Thegas is generated, reaches the holder 2, and lifts it. As it lifts, the. arm 21 permits the part 4 to come into alinement with the part 3 by its own weight, so that theresiduum, together with the. carrier 19 when present, travels intoposition for being taken up by the elevator. The rise of the holder also actuates the elevator in the manner described,

In this. way the. movable and the residuum is thustalgen away from the machine. This operation is of course automatically repeated andtfresh suppliesof-carbid may be introduced without interfering with it by reason of the provisions which control the outletto the pipe 13 and to the vent 12.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details withoutde parting from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement ofparts hereinabove set forth }and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings Having thusdescribedthe nature andi oh jects, of. the invention, 'What I claim as, new, anddesire to secure by Letters Ratent, is?

1. The combination in a gas-generating ap Par f-afiu d-re epwc e, a gasrholder pz crating in conjunction, therewith and 'having 'an outlet, means for. automatically feedihg,

p m ed. q nt t es dea -gen r material, a sealed delivering-chutewhereof oneend communicates with said means and whereof the other end is capable of-,-be ing, ele,- vated to detain the gas-generating material in the fluid-receptacle, a well communieatin'g with thefluid-receptacle and withsaid chute,

means operatively. disp osedin said; well 6;

removing the um, and ath eway valve cOmm ll cating, with said. h n mild adapted for establishingcommunicationwith the atmosphere and with s aidloutlet,

stantially as described.

2. The combination in anacetylene-gasner neplant of a mam a -pipe Sea d c'arbid-delivering chute, and a three zvay valve m n cati i a d c ii and adapted for establishi g communieation with the. a o pher Wit h s-Pipe stantial ly as describedf I i i In testimony whereof I have here mto signed my name." H I J 4 JA ON K. M. GILLIGAN. 

